I saw a few Tamiya 1/72 kits that I did not know existed. Particularly
they are the Bae Hawk and Jaguar kits. Are these reboxed kits from
another manufacturer or are they original Tamiya toolings? How about
the Mosquito? They seem to be a bit obscure to be new tamiya
toolings. Am I correct? Thanks, Jack
JP,
The Mossie kits are actual Tamiya molds. Quite nice IMHO. You do have to
watch though as many of the other kits are Italeri reboxes. Others that are
for sure tamiya molds are the F4U Corsair, Spitfires, Bf-109s, and the early
FW-190 (A# I think?). You do have to be careful with the FW-190D9 kits. One
is a Tamiya mold and the other is an Italeri rebox. I can't remember how to
tell and all my kits are still in boxes from my move. Sorry. The F-84, the
F4D Skyray kits are also true Tamiya molds.
I have notcied that if you look at these kits on the HLJ site, they do tell
you which are Italeri reboxes.
As a side note I've seen many folks bidding up some of these kits on eBay. I
suspect that they do not know what is a rebox and what is not. So watch out.
Jeff Zimmerman
IPMS/USA#29173
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker Chapter
Columbus, Ohio
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